Readiness

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Photo by Matthew McDermott. All Rights Reserved.

The best response is a good plan.

In the world's danger zones —where hurricanes, typhoons, tornadoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods or manmade crises are recurring and deadly threats — we pre-position emergency supplies, help communities plan for disaster and support training for first responders. Through our disaster preparedness initiative, we help partners in several countries in these regions purchase and pre-position critical emergency supplies to help displaced families within 72 hours of a disaster.

In our primary distribution centers in North America, Europe and India, and in our clinic in El Salvador, we maintain Emergency Response Pharmacies stocked and ready for the next crisis. In Europe we assemble Emergency Medical Modules, designed to meet the needs of first responders to a disaster. We have strong working relationships with local and international NGO partners on the ground — ensuring a coordinated and targeted response.

The next disaster can occur anytime, anywhere. Our Annual Emergency Response Partners join our individual donors to help ensure that we have the resources necessary to prepare and respond.

Response

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Just hours into the crisis...

...when lives hang in the balance, our emergency response team sets in motion a disaster relief operation uniquely suited for the crisis and conditions on the ground.

Our relief workers are among the first to respond, guiding emergency and humanitarian aid through our global network and staying as long as needed, saving lives and helping to restore health services for survivors.

Recovery

In the Aftermath...

... we are already laying out a road map to recovery—listening, questioning, and discovering gaps where we can focus our resources to fill critical needs. Each community affected by a disaster may require a different approach.

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AmeriCares India medical teams treated survivors by establishing emergency medical camps in key areas of Jammu and Kashmir after major flooding disaster that killed 250 and severely damaged infrastructure and communications. Emergency medical and humanitarian supplies have also being distributed.

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As local and international efforts slow the spread of Ebola in West Africa, the AmeriCares team is focusing on expanding Ebola treatment capacity, protecting health workers and improving overall health services. We continue shipments of protective supplies to help prevent health workers from contracting and spreading the virus and medical supplies for treating those who are infected while coordinating efforts with partners in to Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. We have also established a warehouse and a staff on the ground in country while recruiting physicians and nurses who are working in Ebola Treatment Units in Liberia.

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Insurgent activity and unrest in the Central African Republic (CAR) has toppled the government, leading to the displacement of thousands of people and a disruption in basic health care. To help restore access to health care for families affected by the violence, AmeriCares has shipped emergency medical kits to restock clinics and hospitals where medicines are in short supply

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The brutal civil war in Syria is one of the world’s most urgent humanitarian crises, We continue to provide medical and humanitarian relief to local organizations in neighboring countries best positioned to help victims of the crisis.

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An ongoing food crisis in Africa’s Sahel region has been compounded by a civil conflict in the northern provinces of Mali that has displaced tens of thousands of people. We are working with our partners in the region, delivering water purification supplies, an Emergency Medical Module and other emergency shipments in Cameroon, Mali, Mauritania and Niger.

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Decades of civil war and regional conflict have halted social development and economic growth in the world’s least developed country. A humanitarian crisis brought on by the conflict has spiked due to increased levels of fighting. AmeriCares has shipped an Emergency Medical Module and other medicines to our hospital partner in the volatile eastern region to help provide treatment for displaced persons and victims of violence.

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A serious food crisis has affected one third of the population of the country with nearly 400,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition. We delivered an Emergency Medical Module with medicines and supplies for distribution that served 15,000 patients along with enough water purification sachets for 40,000 people

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What began as a power struggle between two political rivals in South Sudan has since escalated into a gruesome ethnic conflict between the country’s two largest ethnic groups. Targeted attacks and reprisal killings have caused over 1 million people to flee their homes and resulted in thousands of deaths. With the widespread displacement in rural areas, seasonal farmers may be unable to tend their crops, which could lead to a major threat to the food supply and the possibility of famine. As a result of our recent on the ground assessment of immediate health needs of refugees, AmeriCares has delivered an emergency medical shipment to our partner in Uganda, where over 100,000 South Sudanese have sought refuge.

Crisis Alerts

We are responding to Cyclone Pam, which has left a path of destruction and death on the South Pacific islands of Vanuatu. The storm – the strongest to make landfall since Typhoon Haiyan struck the Philippines in 2013 – made landfall with wind gusts up to 200 mph. Vanuatu has a population of 267,000 spread over 65 islands. About 47,000 people live in the capital Port Villa, which took a direct hit from the storm, damaging over 90% of the buildings. The Category 5 cyclone also hit the islands of Kiribati and Tuvalu as well as the Solomon Islands.

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Since it was established in 1982, AmeriCares has delivered more than $12 billion in humanitarian aid to 164 countries, including the United States.

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